Outside Magazine, July 2018

Features

“I Am Patient Zero”: Can Liz Parrish live forever? The biotech entrepreneur has endured experimental gene modification in her effort to spin the clock in reverse. McKenzie Funkreports from the front lines of radical longevity. —McKenzie Funk

A First Time for Everything: You never forget that initial experience: whether it’s with a bear, a great white shark, an epic wipeout, or another teenage mouth. Susan Casey, Ian Frazier, Pam Houston, and more on the moment when their worlds changed.

Up the Creek (And Over the Dams, and Across the Ponds and Down This Other River, and, OK, Maybe a Few Miles in a U-Haul): Back when he was still cool, the traitor Benedict Arnold laid down one of the greatest expeditions in American history—a 290-mile slog up Maine’s Kennebec River to take Quebec City from the British. W. Hodding Cartersets off to find out how hard it could be. —W. Hodding Carter

Is Kilian Jornet for Real?: The Spanish ultrarunner had already blown minds by effortlessly notching victories and superhuman feats of endurance in the mountains. Then he went for a run. To the top of Everest. Twice. In one week. —Nick Heil

Dispatches

Big Idea

Reclaiming the Tour de France: Cycling’s greatest race is safe to watch again, now that doping is (somewhat) on the wane. —Marc Peruzzi

Fitness

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